“Kerala Government’s Selective Justice: Closure of CAA agitation cases while Sabarimala cases persist”, Organiser, March 23, 2024:

“The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government’s double standard and minority vote bank politics are once again exposed. The Pinarayi Government has instructed the Kerala State Police Chief to close all pending cases in connection with the 2019 anti-CAA agitation.

Observers see this as a step to protect the workers of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), the political outfit of Popular Front of India (PFI), and the alleged fellow travellers of CPM who were involved in violent agitations against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

However, thousands of devotees who participated in non-violent Sabarimala agitations are still facing legal proceedings. Their agitation was for protecting the faith and rituals of Sabarimala temple in the light of the Government of Kerala’s initiative to break the temple rituals by facilitating the temple entry of ‘undesirable’ young women to the shrine…..”

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